The Cloud is accelerating and changing how we think of infrastructure and environments. The acceleration of the business cycles and increasing need for flexibility is driving DevOps and lean ideas throughout the IT value stream. This has significant meaning for cloud infrastructure. We will explore how ephemeral, “as code”, shifting left, and other DevOps concepts are driving change into the IT value stream, accelerating infrastructure automation, and impacting the cloud infrastructure. We will explore the idea of Continuous Compute to address the new requirements being placed on today’s organizations.